We need to start planning the de-Bushification process.

[electropop]

We need a plan of action to start sweeping the most heinous and egregious criminals and GOP operatives from our government. These questions could guide our effort:

What are the top priorities? DoD? DoJ? DHS? FDA?
Can we draw up a list of well-known offenders and target them publicly?
What are the best methods of removal? Impeachment? Hearings? Executive orders? Criminal trials?
How do we identify hidden criminals?
What do we do with the ringers installed to replace the Federal prosecutors?
Can we reverse the policies, decisions, and actions of any of these people?
How do we ensure we don't step over the line and end up doing the same kind of illegal or unethical firings as Bush has?
How public should the process be?

[woodsprite]

1. I hear "Round-Up" works well to de-bushify. n/t

[izquierdista]

2. Very public

Like the reconciliation in South Africa. The Repub troublemakers must acknowledge the situation they have caused both with the war abroad and the economy at home in the shitter.

1) New slate of federal prosecutors and U.S. Attorneys. This is something a Democrat would get around to anyway, but in January 2009 it will take up a special urgency. It will be necessary to weed out the crony prosecutors and get some zealously honest ones in.

2) Independent prosecutors or a "Truman commission" to investigate and go after military contractor abuse.

3) Impeachment of judges who went along with political prosecutions (e.g. Siegelman case in AL)

4) A blanket Executive Order to void all "signing statements" of the last 8 years.

5) Audits of corporate tax returns for the last 7 years to uncover evasion by Bush cronies.

6) Create a cabinet level Inspector General to investigate malfeasance and appoint Bunnatine Greenhouse secretary of that department.

7) Nationwide quality standards for voter registration, roll maintenance, and balloting so that Republican tricks can be eliminated.

8) No voting machines without paper trails and open source software.

[electropop]

3. Great agenda.

I would change (8) to No Voting Machines! Real democracies count ballots by hand with full visibility (observers and media). They get their results faster, cheaper, and more accurately.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. An army of volunteers...

...to go through all their paperwork.

Find those missing emails, etc.

[kenny blankenship]

5. 1st thing is NO MORE SECRETS. Everything turned out into daylight at once

Once the data hits the public domain it can never go back.
De-Nazification will follow from there. Truth Commissions will have to wade through it all for years, but the initial wave of disclosure can have lasting impact if it's immediate, completely purgative, and stops at nothing. A systemic shock, if you will, like the inverse of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine". It must push as hard and as far as fast as possible, because if we follow a trajectory similar to the aftermath of the fall of Communism, there will be initial openness but then gradually institutional desires for secrecy and burying the past will begin to reassert themselves.

[ThomWV]

6. The next President will not do a single thing to diminish the power Bush will leave the office.